Big Lake report 4/21

[Afishionado]

Put in in West Cove yesterday morning hoping to hit the reefs in West Cove for some early morning topwater action. The wind was howling pretty good out of the north/northeast. The Cove was rough and really dirty so headed to the south side of Rabbit Island to try to get out of the wind. No luck there so went into Oyster Bayou to fish, no luck there. The wind gradually switched to the east so fished some cuts on the south bank of West Cove and caught one flounder. Went for a ride to the ship channel and down to the jetties. The tide by this time was going out pretty good and had decent water toward the end of the jetties but still no luck on plastics and gulps. Went out around the jetties to the west side and had some nice green water a couple hundred yards west along the beach. Drifted along the beach in 5-7 ft of water and threw several different plastics and suspending baits with no luck. Went back to West Cove and picked up 2 more flounder. Called it a day at around 4:00.

I hadn't heard about the big rain in Lake Charles on Sunday night, otherwise I probably wouldn't have gone. Water was muddy everywhere in West Cove and the ship channel except at the mouth. The NOAA weather forecast was "east winds around 10 knots". At 10:45 it was blowing from the east at 16, gusting to 22. I hate weather forecasters. If you are a weather forecaster, I hope you die in a fire.